The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1919, Page 22

EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, April 8 a By J. H. Cassel — ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. li aa m by the Pree Publishing Company ‘ark Row, New York. President, 68 Park Row, reasurer, 63 Park Kow Published Daily Except Sunder RALPH PULITZO J. ANGUS SHAW, JOSEPH PULITZER,” J MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Presa tg exctosirel fothermine creiited im this 1 ened OTT: “HIGHER RENT OR EVICTION!” UAT is New York going to do about In deciding three hundred eviction before him yesterday in the Municipal Court of t Robitzek made it plain that when a landlord in th out tenants who can’t pay the boosted rents he thinks he can g is little the courts can do to stop him. Some of these Bronx tenants had getting out or paying $50 for a four room now $24 and which they could have | Realty experts have the usu economic excuses New York is terribly congested precedented; the war stopped b ! building because it believes the present higi cost me down; it fears to make contracts now, find it could have made better ones by waiting. Out of thia the individnal landiord selects reasons to justify himself in boosting rents to any figure he thinks he can extort He does this regardless of any fair and just measuro of increase | warranted by the facts and circumstances of r the rent raisers the demand housing is un to recommence f materials and} labor may iter o + individual case. use no legislative an- Because there is no such measure thority has yet undertaken to say what c¢ under given or ascertainable couditic tive authorily DOK far rent advances shall be reckoned reasonable and fair, the situation in this city—between speculative greed, slowness of new construction | and the impossibility of meeting post-war rent d incomes—wil] soon become { $a just raise of rent Unless ogi S undertake mands from pre-war workers and r thousands o Private enterprise left to itself does not and cannot solve the Other countries New York is finding it out—at the cost of increasing suf- | fering and dismay to the many upon whom the plans and projects of the ruthless landlord profiteer strike hardest Presont taxes in New York do not j communitie housing problem. ify present advances in What part of these rent advances IS justified? That is the question that has got to be answered and answer What about the Legislative Commission t New York. rents?. Its job is calling for it. nanire into | $$$ NEW YORK’S BURGLARIOUS WEEK-END. URGLARS looted at least six safes in various sections of Mar hattan during last Saturday night and Sunday. From a market, a laundry dealer's premises safe-breakers got away with week-end accumula By Sophie Irene Loeb be Pros Publishing Co, » and a provision By Roy L. McCardell The New York Evening World How They Made Good | By Albert Payson Terhune: } Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York’ Grening World) NO. 18.—LORD ROBERTS; Who Taught “Preparedness” to His Country. LITTLE gray-haired, square-shouldered’ man risked the popularity he had won with army and civilians by bending his entire force of nervous energy to the task “of preaching “PREPAREDNE\ to a nation which seemed Inclined to laugh or to yawn at such preaching. The man was Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl and Field Marshal, known to fame as “Lord Roberts” aud fo the idolizing British Tommies as “Bobs.” From boyhood Roberts had made good on every task he attempted, and sdme of these tasks ‘would have crushed @ lesser man. As a fieutenant in the Sepoy mutiny in India he showed first the mettle that was in him. He fought his way through a mob of foemen to rescue a wounded comrade, and, siugte- handed, he captured a standard guarded by two of the enemy « Victo- ,tia Cross rewarded his heroism dn India. In the Afghan Wur he served as Major General and won a baronetey | ‘or his exploits there. War after waf he fought in. One honor a an- other was won by him. He was at the pinnacle of 8 fame when he thrashed the Boers and annexed the Transvaal and ihe Orange Free \o Great Britain. For this he received an earldom and a gift from th tion of $500,000. Roberts had done his bit. He had done more. He had done his all He had‘fought his country's wars and had given his life d his genius to Hngland's betterment. He was an old, old man; worn out by countless campaigns long past the age ch the Un ates retires her ofieers | from service, He was the |dol of the British Army and of the peop! rich and loaded down with honors. Surely, if eve rest, it was Lofd Roberts But he would not rest. And, in his old age, with a lifetime achievement behind him, he set forth afresh to make good. ‘This time he Planned a harder and far more needfut campaign than ever he had fourht in actual war. «It was a campaign which threatened to rob him of his hard Won popularity and which was certain to involve an avalanche. of unending and thankless work. te wh splendid Knowing a. @ re Lord Roberts de tely A Lieutenant in § ‘urned his back « fe of ease and of adwation In nh were ht, and threw himself heart Simanonteng and ool tne sor he had appointed for himself, His shrewd old eyes saw ow English many was se< German mena in false s and day, buile dreamed of. rrible mischief f 1 » bulk He knew that up a mighty wa knew all t the m en were drowsin y at work, night ne such as the world had neve premarations must one day make nations of the th He know that such forve could he opr mich “equal force” were not fi oming w last to strike her blow for world conqu from humiliation and from crushing defeat Looking around upon his fellow-countrymen, Robe tinuing smugly their wonted routine of life. They pared to stand up under such o biow as he bell ready to strike. The British Army was small. Tho | not personally interested in military trainin Then it was that Lord Roberts sougded his n low-countrymen, urging them to Preparedness. At fir but deaf ears, ‘The Britis coming storm, Had Guyed! Inv RUbtI6. that they spend their leisure hours in drill and in 3 { reeruiting “territorial” regim they would not | have listened to him for a moment. But Roberts |had a way of being right. Moreover, he was throwing all his tireless zeal jand his dynamic genius into the Preparedness scheme. And, bit by bit, more jand more people listened. Gradually civilians beran to take a mild interest [in the idea and to join the uniformed bands that wore soon constantly drill | Ing and marching. The pioneers of this movement were guyed rman tized 1 only by equal force and that if n Germa en nothin ould be ready at save and w ved could sex 88 popular man First Followers } nmereifully whenever they appeared in public wearing their “territorial? uniforms. But at last, thank chiefly to Lord Roberts, the movement was under way. And Great Britain gan to prepare for the coming war. The results of his country's belated efforts at preparedness are an im berts made good Bachelor Girl Reflections (The New York Evening World ) A Place Where the Modern Girl Is Built. Gus Is Going to Quit a Dead Business for By Helen Rowland tions of cash, supplemented by stamps, Liberty Bonds, in the Terminal Building at Seventh Avenu 3 visited; $10,000 worth of silk was stolen from a loft building in Wooster Street. Into a Better Woman. vad the pleas One That Will Always Be Popular. ventured Gus. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World sentiments! interest, you'd get pinched,” VERY day is “another day" for a man—and every girl is anothe self-supporting and M* in New York e of Women Work- termined to joy ta the awak-*| A 500-pound safe taken bodily from a ‘hird floor apartment in West 112th Street was carried by the thieves to a Central Pari ance dance hall. The stage nto a tem - sauld remarry In a bachelor's opinion, all girls are divided inte f that partition was taken *, hallat the Ma ned cafe and grabbed wround the waist and be reshaking dan to Gus's doc meadow opposite the Century Theatre and there rifled in comfort and at leisure of nearly $8,000 in oa se that the burglars dog on guard in the apartment by providing him with a milkfe: the icebox. ne spring field days (or nights) in New of view of the safe-cracker and the second-story man the bar and invited to join erty Bonds and je room where sandwiches performed on who joins takes © club management, was in this were found to have bedevilled ed me and |.) pleasure th t thoir own ottice two classes: “man-haters’ and “man-hunters And it’s difficult to say which inspires him with the greater terror. Indicating tho|| ; fOr fo the trained jundays formal,” In love, when a man's co: ienee begins to work, he partition will | {t is usually a sign that his heart his gone on y of course, but strike. tage. Just : fre ate tables with a good space between, 60 VO One whiff of a woman's sachet sometimes make Soowin wenn one questions Interesting to recall in this connection is Chief Magi McAdoo's colloquy with Police Inspector Boettler last week when the latter was summoned on charges of alleged oppression in having kept three policemen in eight hour shifts stationed for six Weeks @ Forsyth Street restaurant Q. Why were the police sent there originally” A, Because the proprietor was arrested for violation u' merrym present could dance and sing ‘Thos showed a keen “This is an invitation from fifteen the corner would These fifteon thousand girls belon ers running this p the girls and for the girls, angle in a pained and disappoin ker a man think of moonlight, Venice, poetry, old love, ana Veen Nowiave® ANOTHER girl—all in the same moment three-piece ‘The way to a man’s heart is usually through the very bad manage ce |ment of the woman who preceded you, rather than through yc oro sb dclna ihe! aavaa Gi [remarkble skill cried mised a It is very simple to cure your marital troubles if only you can diagnose ey are a godsend | going to this trouble to show him how to sav kicking. O} Q. But even sfter the Magistrate you kept your meu there clubs offer dancing, singing, dramat- vear about the well, I'm through!" the big city atry, seashor though nothing had happened ou complain Tt was in connection with this same « |¢nem; but most people fancy that they are suffering from séul-starvation, when it is merely domestic indigestion. to ME The host successful men are not those who have been inspired with Has this neighborhood a temperance # desire to live up to a noble woman's ideals, but those who have perspired said to Inspector Boettler “If you will allow me to m that it would be much better for the communit) any subject stenography in view of the comradeship placed the men whom you have In res a bad name preserve law and order.” merelal English, sung or dane p following activities Inspector Boettler Costigan, demoird. aide in an Enright police raids on dairy “talk loudly,” police guards in and safe-breakers put over a w¢ Again and still again: What ARE those Enri Answers to Readers’ Questions Inspector Boett! Tang! e that the day ae y and dance out rround of all er spinning whee better and he never will.” the matter wi efficiency and “That's the answer! “What's the anyway?” asked Gus, Is it I should put in moy jctures and them waggle dances t police policies for @ woman was to get Then business would be good." » What you fellers | 1?" asked his hearer: Btrest—A is right. If 18 is an Ameri-| Ald Gap vitizen he cannot be arrested for jestate of All the clubs in”tne nickelodium rt? No! in the effort ‘to satisfy some foollsh woman's whims Why is it that, in dealing with a woman, the average man will back place Ret 4 pox of bon-bons (or roses) and @ little cheap flattery against al! the and temper- jojo of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, and Herbert Spencer” . fuily believ- CEE ° us. A Before murriage, a lover's words are too good to be true too true to be palatable un d orderly . y and re-| Books for the Blind. knew any HB first Look in English printed to lower case in apie fn raised or empossed letters/tals, In 1834 Galt issued the wapel | for the use of the blind was{of St. Jobn, the first book of the re you kid- | i,.ued ut Kdinburgh ninety-two years | Bible ever printed for the blind. The by James Galt, The first at-| Work was taken up in America by Dr tempt to provide literature for the| Howe, the busband of Julia Ward @ nickelo- |ycrtiess was made in 1786 by Hauy|Howe, then in charge of Perkins In- Puris, who invented a system for) *titute in Boston, who printed the Iprinting raised letters, Hauy used |@ntire New Testament in 18388, Dr front to itithe Miyrian or Slavonian alphabet|Howe issued the entire Bible tn wary figxers done in white-|\n the few brief works he published, | ised characters in 1843, and a simi- make business any evading military service in Italy upon his retur to that count . Wiliam B, Garrison mutual benefit fund, elor ils, who make their own way, | sickness and death, Sidney Slavin, Inexpensive the street,|ind his project ended in failure lar work was issued in Glasgow man Sla-| Gait, the Scotchman, vastly im-|f@¥ years later, » first magazine vinsky’s dude son, what is an actor} proved the system, using a modified | fF the blind was established in Eng- jeount you dance and sing Like I seen : rs do in a jaza place. for business? have any at all in a couple "Tcation fac taip duplicate discharge by ay to the War Department and necessary affidavits, which they feller, eings in,” explained Gus, , “Oh, a nickelodeon, “No, this is different. ing of a temperance jazz cafe where you have ragtime singers and shim- mey dancers entertain your customers pa without wiakea aloonctie deinkatd (ine, upoeriakararme ax for Tour J a man could pave. t have to ta ke him for | asec We are speak- | two to threc Any girl who wants to know where © join 4 club will apply at the New| York League of Women Workers, No, o here are these clubs which are 45 Hast 80th Street, New York . 60 Columbus Avenue— to the|There is no exe itigenship of has the pur In the meantime she wante friends, @ child born of alien she does not want to be lonely ana! parents in the United States, ,,. A. F.—You should apply Board of Health, City of New York, Birth cortificate, | ihcgek ‘ No, but that brings people to your business does last,” | plained Mr. Rangle. “dt would only bring Skelly, the land in 1855 by the Rev. W. Taylor, who devoted forty years of his life to the education of the‘sightless, A “when I get out of the cafe business M iy In going into something quict, I'm|cicwlating library for the blind was s founded in 1982 at the Perkins Insti- soing to buy a partnership mit Berry, going to buy 4 p ° tute in Boston, and libraries of th? Undertakers don't care for|*ind have since been established n letter, and « | Ror fining himself ald Mr, Jarr, | < | tron: age. aaid Gus, teelingly, jno constitutionalities!” » ‘pearly all large cities, a ae a ea tl}